We don’t need to look to dystopian authoritarian theocracies portrayed in science fiction novels and movies to know that it is not uncommon for humans — and particularly their authoritarian…
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Three Decades of Detecting, Distributing and Decoding the Behavior of Nature’s Smallest Components
BYLINE: Savannah Mitchem and Lea Radick Newswise — The Argonne team continues to make important contributions to the ATLAS experiment, investigating the universe’s smallest building blocks and the rules behind their interactions.…
Early Roman marching camps confirm 3rd century advances in Germania
Archaeological investigations have led to the identification of the first confirmed Roman marching camps in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, providing the earliest structural evidence that Roman military units advanced…
Animal personalities can play a big role in saving species
Citations C. Neto et al. Impact of behavioral differences on white-lipped peccary reintroduction success in the Atlantic forest. Scientific Reports. Vol. 15, March 5, 2025. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-90853-z A. Sih, A.…
Leading the Field in Magnets
BYLINE: Lauren Biron Newswise — In 1929, Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented the cyclotron: a compact, efficient particle accelerator that used magnets. Two years later, he founded what would become the…
How cheetah mummies could help bring the species back to Arabia
The fastest land animal on the planet lies frozen in time beneath blistering desert sands. Researchers have discovered dozens of ancient cheetah skeletons and dehydrated bodies preserved in caves on…
How Mars ‘punches above its weight’ to influence Earth’s climate
Mars’ gravity has a surprisingly large influence on Earth, affecting our planet’s tilt and orbit and thereby contributing to climate cycles lasting hundreds of thousands to millions of years, new…
Wande Li | The night shift: how nocturnal arboreal mammals reshape seed dispersal networks in a fragmented forest – Functional Ecologists
In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post we uncover the hidden contributions of nocturnal foragers. Author Wande Li, a PostDoc at East China Normal University, guides us through the fascinating…
New Year’s resolutions usually fall by the wayside, but there is a better approach to making real changes
How are your New Year’s resolutions going? If you’ve given up on them, you’re not alone. Every January, people across the world seek a fresh start and set goals for…
Viewpoint: COVID vaccines caused ‘turbo cancers’? MAHA disinformers revive long-debunked claims
… I saw a post on X, the disinformation hellsite formerly known as Twitter, by eminent oncologist and cancer researcher Dr. Wafik El-Deiry (whom we’ve met before here) touting his review article…
